I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. - Sigmar Polke
“I believe in the sanctity of the soul and in the truth of Art, one and indivisible… I believe that this Art has a divine source and lives in the hearts of all men who have been touched by the heavenly light; I believe that having once tasted the delights of this great Art one is inescapably and forever dedicated to it and can never renounce it, I believe that everyone, by means of it, can achieve bliss.
I believe in a last judgment at which terrible punishment will be meted out to all who have dared to traffic in sublime and pure Art and all who have soiled and degraded it by their vulgarity and vile lust after material pleasures. I believe that conversely the faithful disciples of great Art will be blessed and that, wrapped in a perfumed and heavenly garment of sweet harmonies, they will return to the heart of the divine source of all harmony, to be identified and dwell with it there forever.” -Paul Gauguin